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@@ -1,54 +1,41 @@ .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: December 10 2008 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 16 2009 $ .Dt mdocml 1 .Os .\" .Sh NAME .Nm mdocml -.Nd compile manpage source into mark-up language +.Nd mdoc macro compiler .\" .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm mdocml .Op Fl v .Op Fl W Ns Ar err... -.Op Fl f Ar filter -.Op Fl o Ar outfile .Op Ar infile .\" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm -utility parses mdoc formatted manual source and passes results into an -output filter. The current output filters are -.Fl f Ar html -and -.Fl f Ar xml . -By default, -.Nm -only validates its input. This may be explicitly directed with -.Fl f Ar noop . -Arguments common to all filters follow: -.Bl -tag -width "\-o outfile" -.It Fl f Ar filter -The output filter name. -.It Fl o Ar outfile -Write output to -.Ar outfile , -which may be -.Dq \- -for stdout. This is meaningless for -.Fl f Ar noop . +utility interfaces the +.Xr mdoc 3 +library to validate and parse mdoc-macro documents. Arguments follow: +.Bl -tag -width "\-Werr... " .It Fl W Ns Ar err... -Print warning messages. If set to -.Fl W Ns Ar all , -all warnings are printed; if -.Fl W Ns Ar error , -warnings are considered errors and cause utility termination. Multiple +Print warning messages. May be set to +.Fl W Ns Ar all +for all warnings, +.Ar compat +for groff/troff-compatibility warnings, or +.Ar syntax +for syntax warnings. If +.Fl W Ns Ar error +is specified, warnings are considered errors and cause utility +termination. Multiple .Fl W arguments may be comma-separated, such as .Fl W Ns Ar error,all . .It Fl v -Make warning and error messages verbose. +Print verbose parsing output. .It Ar infile Read input from .Ar infile , @@ -57,90 +44,29 @@ which may be for stdin. .El .Pp +Parsing and validation rules are drawn entirely from the +.Xr mdoc 7 +and +.Xr mdoc.samples 7 +manuals. +.Pp By default, .Nm -reads from stdin and writes to stdout. +reads from stdin, writes messages to stdout, and writes errors and +warnings to stderr. .Pp .Ex -std mdocml -.\" -.Ss Noop Filter -The default noop -.Dq validating -filter simply validates its input; it produces no output beyond error -and warning messages. -.\" -.Ss XML Filter -The XML filter, specified by -.Fl f Ar xml , -produces correctly-formatted XML output. This filter has no additional -arguments. -.Pp -The XML filter creates an XML document where element names are their respective -roff macro names. Each element name has an associated -namespace, which is one of -.Dq block , -.Dq head , -.Dq body , -or -.Dq inline , -corresponding to the display mode of a node. The document root is -always the -.Dq mdoc -element, in the default namespace; the -.Dq head -namespace is for block headers (such as -.Sq .Ss -and -.Sq .Sh ) ; -the -.Dq body -namespace is for block bodies; and the -.Dq inline -namespace is for in-line elements (such as -.Sq .Em ) . -.\" -.Ss HTML Filter -The HTML filter, specified by -.Fl f Ar html , -accepts the following filter-specific arguments: -.Bl -tag -width "\-c css" -.It Fl c Ar css -The CSS file location, which defaults to -.Ar mdocml.css . -.It Fl e -Whether to embed the CSS file into the HTML prologue. -.El -.Pp -By default, the HTML filter produces HTML-4.01 strict mark-up. The -default CSS document styles the page as it would appear in a terminal -window. .\" .Sh EXAMPLES -To produce an HTML4-strict document -.Pa mdocml.html -for -.Pa mdocml.1 -with the default, embedded style-sheet: -.Pp -.D1 % mdocml -fhtml -e -o mdocml.html mdocml.1 -.Pp -To create an XML document on standard output from -.Pa mdocml.1 -with the default namespace identifiers -.Li head , -.Li body , -.Li block -and -.Li inline : -.Pp -.D1 % mdocml -Wall,error -fxml mdocml.1 +To validate this manual page: .Pp -The previous example will also halt on input document warnings. +.D1 % mdocml \-Wall,error mdocml.1 .\" .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr groff 1 , .Xr mdoc.samples 7 , -.Xr mdoc 7 +.Xr mdoc 7 , +.Xr mdoc 3 .\" .Sh STANDARDS .\" .Sh HISTORY .Sh AUTHORS @@ -150,34 +76,16 @@ utility was written by .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@kth.se . .\" .Sh CAVEATS -Most caveats of +The most glaring short-coming of .Nm -stem from ambiguities in -.Xr mdoc 7 -or the necessary limitations of converting an ad hoc language into -structured ones: -.Bl -enum -compact -offset indent -.It -The engine doesn't understand the -.Sq \&No , -.Sq \&Db , -.Sq \&Xc , +is that it doesn't yet support the +.Sq \&Xc and .Sq \&Xo -mdoc macros. -.It -All macro arguments may be quoted, instead of only some. -.It -Blank lines raise errors. -.It -If terminating punctuation is found, then -.Em all -remaining tokens are flushed after line scope is closed, not just the -last one. -.El -.Pp -The roff engine in -.Nm -produces text in-line; thus, output may already be partially written by -the time an error is encountered. +macros when used to extend the line arguments to +.Sq \&It ; +in effect, trampling the body section. We note that this is explicitly +discouraged in +.Xr mdoc.samples 7 , +but in practice used quite often. .\" .Sh BUGS |